Whilst this sounds like one of those blindingly obvious statements, it is amazing just how often we do not do so. Often when making a plan for the future, we actually start from where we would like to be or indeed the plan was where we believe we should be. ‘Should’ is an important word […]
Reading of Stacey Bendet and her ‘return to work 6 days after giving birth to her 3rd child’ in Forbes. It was was not the time-frame of her return that struck me but something else. As an individual who is standing up for her right to parent in her own way, I was intrigued to […]
There is a purpose to this phrase for me, it means ‘putting on the mantle’ or being the defender of a particular position. We all have many a role in our lives. In a day I move between coach, mother, wife, supervisor, domestic goddess (!), accountant, confidante, marketing manager, et al ……….& sometimes I don’t […]
Working therapeutically, and, having processed a lot of my past, it’s easy to fall into the trap of believing that I am exempt from denial. Ha! “You do know what you do not know”, is otherwise referred to as ‘unconscious incompetence’. When we move from this stage to knowing what we don’t know, or ‘conscious […]
I have to share this Blog. It’s well worth the read. With many thanks to Mark Manson Blog “Screw Finding Your Passion by Mark Manson Remember back when you were a kid? You would just do things. You never thought to yourself, “What are the relative merits of learning baseball versus football?” You just […]
It might seem ridiculous that I need to even write those words but I do feel I want to. Over and over again I hear career coaching clients dismiss doing what they love as ‘an indulgence’, ‘a hobby’ or ‘just a pastime’. They rarely categorise these brilliances as the thing that can earn them a […]
……Is that we can cause all sorts of difficulties for ourselves. We can talk ourselves both in, and out, of any opportunity or plan. We can do this over and over until we barely know which way is up or indeed what we wanted to achieve in the first place…… What an exhausting process! How […]
What does this mean? Some people call it ‘being in the zone’ or ‘doing the work they love’, but certainly it is the sense that you are doing just what you want to do, in the way that you want to do it, right in the here and now. Whilst there are bits of every […]
Sometimes when we turn and face a problem it helps. The feeling that something is amiss, the fear for our job or our child or our relationship, that one that doesn’t shift, no mater what we tweak or nudge or shove, is sometimes best met head-on. To face the difficulty, name it and take a […]
If you’re a ‘stay at home mum’, it’s easy to feel guilty for not contributing to the household income. If you’re a ‘working mum’, it’s easy to feel guilty about not attending to your child 24/7. If whilst you juggle work and home you also desire some fun or even just ‘you-time’, god help you […]